Bernard Charles Glueck Sr. (December 10, 1884 - October 5, 1972) was a

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and

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. He established the first prison psychiatric clinic and was an

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in the

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trial.Staff report (October 9, 1972). Defense Figure in Leopold and Loeb Trial Is Dead. ''

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'' He also served as president of the

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in 1945.Lebensohn, Zigmond M. (1973)
In memoriam: Bernard Glueck Sr.
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'' 1973;130:326-326.

Life and career

Glueck was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States in 1900. He earned his medical degree from

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in 1909, then started a career in

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. Glueck founded the first prison psychiatric clinic at

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in 1915. He served in the

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of the

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, starting in 1918. In 1920, he introduced his brother

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to his brother's future wife

Eleanor Glueck Eleanor Touroff Glueck (April 12, 1898 – September 25, 1972) was an American social worker and criminologist. She and her husband Sheldon Glueck collaborated extensively on research related to juvenile delinquency and developed the "social predic ...

. Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck went on to have a lifelong collaboration studying juvenile delinquency. Later, Glueck worked for the

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(which would later become the

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) and the

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Bureau of Child Guidance. In 1924,

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sought out Glueck and two other alienists to testify for the defense the kidnapping/murder trial of Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb. Both were convicted. Glueck founded the private Stony Lodge Hospital in

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, in 1927. After retiring in 1947, Glueck continued to work for the

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, the

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, and John Umstead Hospital in

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. His son

Bernard Glueck Jr. Bernard Charles Glueck Jr. (August 26, 1914 – July 24, 1999) was an American psychiatrist. He served as director of research at The Institute of Living, now part of Hartford Hospital.Ploss, Donna E. (July 31, 1999). A promise Kept, a journey ...

(1914–1999) was also a psychiatrist, affiliated with the Institute for Living in Connecticut.Ploss, Donna E. (July 31, 1999). A promise Kept, a journey together. ''

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Selected publications

*''Studies in Forensic Psychology'' (1916) *Translator from German to English of Alfred Adler's opus magnum, The neurotic constitution: Outlines of a comparative individualistic psychology and psychotherapy (1917) *A study of 608 admissions to Sing Sing Prison (1918) *The psychoanalysis of the total personality: The application of Freud's theory of the ego to the neuroses (1935) *A Note on War Psychiatry (1942) *Social psychopathology (1949)

References

External links

Guide to the Bernard Glueck Sr. Papers 1910–1971
via

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* * 1884 births 1972 deaths Polish emigrants to the United States American psychiatrists Georgetown University School of Medicine alumni United States Army Medical Corps officers United States Army personnel of World War I Columbia University faculty Columbia University School of Social Work faculty 20th-century American physicians {{US-psychiatrist-stub